PROLOGUE(2003, 53 minutes. with William Stone Mahoney, Sally
Conway and David Thornton) Buck's reflective
and somber denouement to the trilogy tells the tale of a young teenage
girl,
brutally attacked just one year before, returning to her hometown where
she will confront her attacker.

"Cold and analytical he dissects
the roots and consequences of violence without sparing the audience.
This trilogy is a daring and authentic critique of American double standards
and bigotry."Diabolo (German weekly magazine)

"If Mike Leigh would like splatter-movies,
his films might look like Douglas Buck's. In painfully long takes, Buck
unfolds a family nighmare that forces its way into the audience's brain
slowly, but therefore much more lastingly."
Frank Arnold, Filmdienst (Monthly Nationwide German Cinema Magazine)

"With his latest short-film "Prologue" his "Trilogy
of America" comes to a close."Blickpunkt Film (German nationwide weekly cinema/industrial
magazine)

"Buck's violence is manifest to
a daring and consequent filmmaker's conscience.
The atmosphere in his films, the performances and the brutally torn bodies
are thought-provoking metaphors for life in suburban America."Schnitt (German quarterly movie magazine, nationwide)

HOME(1998, 29 minutes. with Gary Betsworth, Christine
Caleo and Ray Bland)Acting as both pseudo-sequel
to, and remake of, Cutting Moments, Buck's follow-up
changes the focus from the matriarch to the father... or, more fittingly,
the many fathers... and the sins they pass down. Eschews explicit violence
for a more psychological approach, to a no less harrowing result.

"...proof that a fine artist can
use shocking violence to serve a higher purpose."Zoe Lund, writer-actor, 'Bad Lieutenant'/'Ms. 45'

"...bravura film-making, a thirty
minute masterpiece...Doug Buck's first film makes me wonder what raw terror
and beauty await in his second; he offers new hope for the American cinema
of horror."Douglas E. Winter, writer of biographies on Stephen
King, Clive Barker

"...this is the sort of filmmaking the world
desperately needs more of - uncompromisingly honest works designed not
to entertain an audience but to destroy them."Mitch Davis, Flesh and Blood Magazine

AFTER
ALL(1995, 17 minutes. b&w. with
John Pero)A darkly humorous black and white tale of a young
boy, unable to fit in, finally realizing
his calling while watching animals killing each other on nature documentaries.
Raw non-sync early effort, interesting as an early and funny example of
Buck's forays
into continuing themes of painful isolation, suburban disassociation and
the inherent violence that can follow.

NEWS

7/15/08
- THE
BROKEN IMAGO UPDATE! Paul McCann of horror website Dread Central
caught up to Douglas Buck and Metaluna producer Fabrice Lambot
at the Montreal Fantasia Festival where Douglas is serving is
the President of the First-Feature Film Jury to discuss the
shooting of the The Broken Imago teaser, as well as the status
of the project itself. For the full story, check out http://www.dreadcentral.com/story/exclusive-douglas-buck-talks-broken-imago.

5/20/08
- Next
week Douglas Buck leaves to Argentina to shoot the teaser for
his previously mentioned project 'The Broken Imago'. Buck says
"Metaluna Films' Fabrice Lambot has grown more and more
excited about our weird sci-fi project and has decided to go
all out, bringing a group of us over to shoot a very strange
and exciting 4 minute teaser. Karim Hussain, the Montreal director
of 'La Belle Bete' and 'Ascension' is acting as my Director
of Photography. It's the first time we've worked together in
this way so it should be interesting." The teaser will
be shot over 2 days around Buenos Aires on 35mm. Buck wrote
and will direct and edit the teaser. It should be ready by the
end of June.

3/06/08
- With
Image Entertainment scheduled to release SISTERS to DVD March
11th, a number of outlets have interviewed director Douglas
Buck, including journalist and critic Matthew Kiernan at the
AMC
website. The short interview also provides a link to Matthew's
positive review of the film during its screening at the Philadelphia
Film Festival.

It's titled 'The Broken Imago' and is a long-time
dream project for Buck. "I had originally mentioned the
story to (Metaluna co-founder) Fabrice Lambot about 8 years
ago, before he was even involved in film production. I had
forgotten I even told him about it when he suddenly called
me from France last month and said 'Hey, I started a
production company with Jean-Pierre Putters, we've already
done one feature film and a few shorts and we'd like
to do yours next. Remember that story you told me a long time
ago... ? '" Metaluna has commissioned the writing of
the script and is hopeful to be in production, with Buck directing,
by winter 2008 most likely in Argentina. Details are sketchy
but Buck will say it's a "low budget sci-fi film, around
a million dollar budget would be fine, about a group of kids
on an isolated island and a peculiar virus transforming the
world. If I had to make a comparison, I'd call it 'Lord of
the Flies' as made by David Cronenberg. A Nature's Revenge
movie." Stay tuned.

2/15/08
- Douglas
Buck will be in attendance next weekend at the Chicago
Fangoria Weekend of Horrors February 22-25. Buck, along
with co-writer John Freitas, will be doing a panel on Saturday
February 23 at 1:30pm discussing SISTERS and screening clips
from the film.

Also, FAMILY PORTRAITS will be screening at noon on the same
day at the convention. Buck will be around all weekend with
advance signed DVD copies of SISTERS, just ahead of its March
11 release date, as well as DVDs of his first film FAMILY
PORTRAITS, so feel free to stop him if you'd like a copy of
either.

1/14/08
- FINALLY
AN UPDATE! As announced on the fangoria.com website, SISTERS
is finally scheduled to be released on DVD through Image Entertainment
on March 11, 2008. On the DVD will be included commentary
by Buck, as well as extended/deleted scenes and a stills gallery.
Check out the Image trailer at www.fangoria.com/sisters

Unfortunately, SISTERS will not be getting the hoped-for limited
domestic theatrical release. According to Buck "theaters
in San Fran, LA, New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, Portland and
others were not only interested -- some had already confirmed
-- in booking a SISTERS run when, for some very frustrating
reasons out of my control, we had to pull any US bookings."

However, the film will be getting a Japanese theatrical, opening
at the Shibuya Prefecture on February 23, then going wide
soon after. Check out the interesting and quirky Japanese
trailer at www.sisters-movie.jp

Buck is currently working with a French producer on his latest
project, a low-budget yet ambitious sci-fi film. More information
and updates about the project will be coming soon, as Buck
is confident the contracts will be signed early next month!
So stay tuned!

9/09/06
- Douglas Buck
has just returned from France where he introduced the official
presentation screening of 'Family Portraits' at the Deauville
Film Festival and did press for the upcoming October 4th theatrical
release of 'Family Portraits' in Paris.

Buck
has headed to Vancouver for the upcoming sound mix on his
latest film 'Sisters'. 'Sisters' is scheduled to be completed
in time for its World Premiere in the Official Competition
at Sitges
International Film Festival in mid-October. This will
be followed by its North American premiere at the 35th Nouveau
Cinema Festival in Montreal a week later. Much more festival
information to come!

5/25/06
- Production for Douglas Buck's remake of Brian De Palma's
1972 shocker 'Sisters' is complete!
Production wrapped on April 13 and Buck is deep into his director's
cut working with editor Omar Daher. Buck says filming was
difficult and frustrating, with many unnecessary battles behind
the scenes, but is overall satisfied with the results. And
working with the actors was a blessing, Buck continues. "Chloe
Sevigny, Stephen Rea and Dallas Roberts were true professionals,
and a blast to spend time with. French actor Lou Doillon (who
replaced French Chanel supermodel Anna Mouglalis just 3 days
before production, who had replaced Asia Argento one month
before that) was a real find." The film should be ready
for festivals in the winter.

Also,
check out the ORDERING
THE TRILOGY section of this website. The price for Douglas
Buck's "Family Portraits" DVD just came down by
30%!

6/02/05- MORE NEWS:

FAMILY
PORTRAITS: A TRILOGY OF AMERICA
made the top ten 2004 movie list of both the fine folks at
freezedriedmovies.com
and New York film critic Jeremiah Kipp's at filmcritic.com!

The
endless 'Sisters' saga is gaining momentum: A recent
May 18th Hollywood Reporter article discussed the impending
break-up of famed producer Ed Pressman and John Schmidt after
their mutual company Content Films' board of directors decided
to abandon film production entirely to solely focus on acquisitions.
The article goes on to describe the formation of Pressman's
new production company Pressman & Co. Films and mentions
the following:
"Among the planned projects is a remake of Brian DePalma's
"Sisters," to be directed by Douglas Buck. (Pressman
also produced the original 1973 'Sisters.') Asia Argento is
in negotiations to star in the Margot Kidder role."
Buck can add to this information by saying the film is definitely
scheduled for production in January 2006. The original location
of Montreal, Canada is now under question as the freezing
winter conditions make shooting their very difficult for such
a tightly budget film, as well as Buck "never envisioned
the film as a winter movie." New locations, including
the South, are being considered in order to maximize the budget.
Either way, it looks like 'Sisters' is finally going to happen!!
Stay tuned.

2/22/05- NEWS AND UPDATES:

SISTERS
PROJECT
After more than two years of frustrating delays and confounding
legal issues that seemed at one time destined to kill the project,
'Sisters' appears back on track. Douglas Buck and his co-writer
John Freitas wrapped up the second draft screenplay of this
remake of Brian Depalma's 1972 shocker a few months back and
preliminary budgeting has begun. Casting sessions have started
with Content Films soon ready to make offers. Shooting is scheduled
for Montreal, Canada later this year with Buck directing.

UPCOMING
FAMILY PORTRAITS SCREENING/FESTIVAL DATES
The trilogy will be screening at the upcoming 2005 Mar Del Plata
film festival (www.mardelplatafilmfest.com).
Douglas Buck will be attending from March 15-20. The festival
takes place just outside Buenos Aires in Argentina and runs
March 10-20.

Buck
will also be attending the 2005 Boston Underground Film Festival
(www.bostonundergroundfilmfestival.com)
from April 7-10 where the trilogy also will be screened. The
festival runs Apr 6-10.

The trilogy will also be screened March 30 at 7pm at the IMAGE
Film & Video Center (www.imagefv.org)
in Atlanta Georgia.

DOCUMENTARY
ON LARRY FESSENDEN'S 'THE LAST WINTER'
Buck has also been working on a documentary piece about NY independent
writer/director Larry Fessenden and the creation of his latest
film, the supernatural thriller 'The Last Winter'. He'll be
in Iceland from March 30-April 7 shooting on-set behind the
scenes of Fessenden's latest environmentally-conscious cautionary
tale.

1/05/05
- Douglas Buck will be a guest at the Chiller Convention in
New Jersey this weekend January 7-9 at the Sheraton Meadowlands
Hotel across from Giants Stadium. Along with being around for
the entire weekend, Buck will present a special screening of
'Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America' on Saturday Jan 8th
at noon in the Official Convention Lecture Room. For more info
on the Chiller Convention, go to www.chillertheatre.com

NEW
PROJECT FOR BUCK:
Douglas Buck's long-time companion and collaborator Rita Romagnino
delivered their first child Azia Sofia Romagnino Buck on December
21st, 2004. Everyone is home and doing well.

11/23/04
-'Prologue'
(the 52-minute denouement chapter in Douglas Buck's 'Family
Portraits: A Trilogy of America') has been announced in competition
for the New Directors/New Visions section prize at the upcoming
Sitges International Film Festival (www.cinemasitges.com) running
December 2-11. The festival is located just outside Barcelona
in Spain. Buck will be a guest at the festival from December
4th until the end and will present the screening of 'Prologue'
on December 6th, as well as a special screening of the entire
Trilogy on December 7th.

10/20/04
- 'Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America' has been announced
as an official in-competition entry at the 1st Annual Horror
Fiesta Festival taking place in Warsaw, Poland running this
Nov 5-7th. For more info, check out their site at www.horrorfiesta.org.

8/31/04
- Due to the success of the September 6 screening of FAMILY
PORTRAITS: A TRILOGY OF AMERICA at the Pioneer
Theater, the film has been asked back for a ONE WEEK THEATRICAL
RUN in October! FAMILY PORTRAITS will screen October 13-19.
All screenings will be held at 9pm, with only the October 16
screening held at 7pm.

8/31/04
- Check out the current FEARFUL FEATURES section of the fangoria
website for a new piece on Buck's Trilogy written by none
other than frequent horror scribe Don Kaye.

8/31/04
- THE WAIT IS FINALLY OVER! THE TRILOGY IS ALMOST HERE! After
resolving all final printing issues, Douglas Buck's Family Portraits:
A Trilogy of America DVD will finally be ready for release later
this week! Payment through PAYPAL or by certified check/money
order will be set up in a few days. This 2-disc set will be
$29.99 USD postage paid (Orders outside of the U.S. please add
$3.00 USD for shipping/handling).

Douglas Buck and genre legend George Romero present
the Family Portraits poster.

8/30/04
- The opening presentation of Douglas Buck's Family
Portraits DVD was an immediate success last weekend
at the Rue Morgue Festival of Fear in Toronto.
Sales were high and genre favorites like George
('Dawn of the Dead') Romero stopped by the booth
to give their support.

UPDATED NEWS ON TRILOGY DVD!
After
struggling through a number of unforseen snags along the
way (including digital remastering issues of the original
Cutting Moments and Home negatives), work on the DVD is
back on track. A new release date is set for the now 2-disc
set of the 'Trilogy' of August 2004. For further info,
Contact us.

Douglas
Buck was unfortunately unable to attend the screenings
of 'Prologue' at the Montreal Fantasia festival, but
he will definitely be present this weekend 8/20-8/21
for opening introductions and closing Q&As at both screenings
of the Family Portraits trilogy at the Cinema du Parc
in Montreal. Both Friday and Saturday night screening
will be held at 11:15pm.

7/09/04
- Check out the Filmmaker
Magazine website for an interview with Douglas Buck
discussing the trilogy, the film festival circuit and
the continuing saga of the Sisters project.

7/2/04
- SCREENINGS
OF 'PROLOGUE' AND 'FAMILY PORTRAITS' IN MONTREAL! 'Prologue' will screen as part
of the Montreal
Fantasia Festival on July 28th at 7:30pm as well
as on July 29th at 7:20pm. Both screenings will be double
billed with Lucile Hadzililovac's brilliant and tragic
study of a young French girl's domestic anguish called
'La Bouche de Jean Pierre'. Buck will be at the screenings
to introduce his film.

The entire 'Family Portraits'
trilogy will screen in Montreal's wonderful repertory
cinema house Cinema du Parc at midnight on Friday August
20th and Saturday August 21st. For further information,
check out out their website.

5/28/04
- Douglas Buck has been officially announced as a guest
at the Toronto Festival of Fear Horror Expo where he
plans to present the completed DVD of his Trilogy. The
Rue Morgue magazine-sponsored event will be held at
the Metro Toronto Convention Center from Aug 27-29.
Other guests include George A. Romero and Larry Fessenden.
For more info, check out the following link: www.rue-morgue.com/flash/content/fof.html

5/21/04
- For some general musings by Editor Rod Gudino on a
recent slightly imbibed conversation had with Douglas
Buck late on a summer night in the streets of Montreal
at the 2003 Fantasia Festival discussing the importance
of horror films, check out Rod's opening 'Notes From
the Underground' column in the latest Rue
Morgue #39 (with the amazing image from David Cronenberg's
"Rabid" on the cover).

04/22/04
-ALONG
WITH FASCINATING INTERVIEWS WITH TOM NOONAN AND LANCE
HENRIKSEN, CHECK OUT THE REVIEW OF 'PROLOGUE' IN SHOCK
CINEMA #24, THE LASTEST SPRING ISSUE. YOU'LL FIND IT
ON PAGE 44, ALONGSIDE THE LATEST POSITIVE REVIEW OF
JEREMIAH KIPP'S WONDERFUL 'THE CHRISTMAS PARTY(2003)'.
FOR THE GENERAL GIST OF THE REVIEW OF BUCK'S FILM, CHECK
OUT A SNIPPET IN THE 'PROLOGUE' SECTION ABOVE.

01/05/04
- Check out the latest January-February 2004 issue of
Rue
Morgue for the two page spread on 'The Suburban
Holocaust of Douglas Buck' including critical analysis,
photos and interview excerpts.

11/20/03
- Douglas Buck's infamous 'Cutting Moments' screened in
Toronto on Wednesday night, November 19th, along with
Dennison Ramalho's 'Love from Mother Only' and Nacho Cerda's
'Aftermath' as part of a Trilogy of Trauma night in Toronto's
Vatican sponsored by Rue Morgue Magazine. For pictures
of the intense and apparently quite effective night, check
out:http://rue-morgue.com/forums

11/18/03
- It was a night to remember as the first screening of
'Prologue' took place on Tuesday night at the Tribeca
Film Center. Along with the entire cast and crew, many
New York industry people attended, along with notables
like outstanding horror novelist Peter Straub and controversial
French director Gaspar Noe.

11/17/03
- Douglas Buck, co-writing with his frequent collaborator
John Freitas, officially completed and delivered the first
draft screenplay of 'Sisters' to Pressman/Content Films.
Early word back from Content is positive, we'll see where
it goes from here.

With
his edgy and often extreme short films a continuing presence at
both US underground film festivals and international genre festivals
abroad, filmmaker Douglas Buck has been flying just under the radar
of the mainstream for close to a decade now. Growing up in Long
Island, Buck was infatuated with film very early on, but it wasn't
until after college, and moving into New York City, that he started
taking filmmaking seriously. Supporting himself by day as an engineer
(eventually overseeing the entire continuing electrical airfield
design work for both JFK and LaGuardia Airports), at night Buck
began to associate with legendary maverick director Abel Ferrera,
as well as crazed but brilliant underground writer Zoe Lund.

Eventually making films himself, Buck═s art house style (he claims
Ingmar Bergman and Andrei Tarkovsky as major influences) alternating
with an often in-your-face sensibility, has lead to features in
a wide variety of film sources; from the independent film bible
Filmmaker Magazine, to horror fan guides like Fangoria magazine
and Rue Morgue.

His close association with the French filmmaker and fellow provocateur
Gaspar Noe -- the two immediately appreciating each other's work
-- led to the French company The Wild Bunch, formerly of Canal +,
hiring Buck in late 2000 to develop
an original idea he had pitched them. The experience of putting
together this daring feature film about American suburban alienation
and despair, sort of a cross between Roman Polanski's 'Repulsion'
and Todd Solondz's 'Happiness', was moving smoothly into pre-production,
when it suddenly crashed. Canal + fell into financial turmoil and
Wild Bunch splintered off, leaving Buck's finished screenplay 'Body
Faith' in a development hell, out of which he is still determined
to one day retrieve it.

Buck got back behind the camera in late 2002 finally shooting and
finishing the 52 minute 'prologue' segment to his feature film 'Family
Portraits: A Trilogy of America', his ultimate culminating exploration
into the inner isolation and cauldrons of violence existing within
America today. The film has screened already as a work in progress
at the 2003 Oldenburg Film Festival in Germany to much critical
and audience acclaim and is receiving a one-week New York theatrical
run in October.

Buck is currently working with renowned American independent producer
Ed Pressman to write and direct the remake of Brian Depalma's 1972
classic SISTERS, which falls closely in line with Buck═s previous
explorations into psychic despair and troubled relations culminating
often with acts of terrible violence. His close acquaintance and
fellow New York independent filmmaker Larry Fessenden will act as
a producer on the film. Interest has arisen as well on the Body
Faith front recently, with an independent producer optioning it
and working with Buck to finally get Buck═s dream project back off
the ground.